Anthony Doerr wins the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for All the Light We Cannot See
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Anthony Doerr on Monday was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for All the Light We Cannot See, a historical novel set in occupied France. Other winners included Elizabeth Kolbert for The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History in the category of general non-fiction.
In the field of journalism, Carol Leonnig of The Washington Post won the prize for national reporting for her coverage of the Secret Service's many lapses, while Eric Lipton of The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal staff shared the prize for investigative reporting.
Read the full list of winners here.
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